Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - A Treatise on White Magic - Introductory Remarks







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A Treatise on White Magic - Introductory Remarks





Three types of people will respond to this book. They are:
Those open minded investigators who are willing to accept its fundamentals as a
working hypothesis until these are demonstrated to be erroneous. They will be frankly
agnostic, but willing temporarily, in their search for truth, to try out the methods and
follow the suggestions laid down for their consideration.
Aspirants and disciples. They will study this treatise in order to understand
themselves better and because they seek to help their brother man. They will not accept
its dicta blindly but will experiment, cheek and corroborate with care the stages [7] and
steps laid down for them in this section of the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom.
Initiates. These persons will arrive at a meaning which will not be apparent to
those in the first group and which will only be suspected by the more advanced members of
the second. Within themselves they know the truth of many of its statements and will
realize the subjective working out of many of the laws. These laws of nature have effects
in three distinct realms:
Physically, where they demonstrate as effects in the dense form.
Etherically, where they demonstrate as the energy lying back of those effects.
Mentally, where they concern the impulses which produce the other two.



The Treatise on Cosmic Fire dealt primarily with the solar system and only
touched upon human aspects and correspondences insofar as they demonstrated the relation
of the part to the whole, and of the unit to the totality.
The present book will deal more specifically with human development and unfoldment,
elucidating the causes which are responsible for the present effects, and pointing to the
future and its possibilities, and to the nature of the unfolding potentialities.
This book will be based also upon four fundamental postulates which must be admitted by
the student of the succeeding pages as providing an hypothesis worthy of his consideration
and trial. No true investigator of the Ageless Wisdom is asked to give blind adherence to
any presentation of truth; he is asked, however, to have an open mind and seriously to
weigh and consider the theories and ideals, the laws and the truths which have guided so
many out of darkness into the light of knowledge [8] and experience. The postulates might
be enumerated as follows and are given in the order of their importance.
I. First,
that there exists in our manifested universe the expression of an Energy or Life which is
the responsible cause of the diverse forms and the vast hierarchy of sentient beings who
compose the sum total of all that is. This is the so-called hylozoistic theory, though the
term but serves to confuse. This great Life is the basis of Monism, and all enlightened
men are Monists. "God is One" is the utterance of truth. One life pervades all
forms and those forms are the expressions, in time and space, of the central universal
energy. Life in manifestation produces existence and being. It is the root cause,
therefore, of duality. This duality which is seen when objectivity is present and which
disappears when the form aspect vanishes is covered by many terms, of which for the sake
of clarity, the most usual might be here listed:
Spirit -
Matter
Life - Form
Father -
Mother
Positive -
Negative
Darkness -
Light

Students
must clearly have this essential unity in mind e'en when they talk (as they needs must) in
finite terms of that duality which is everywhere, cyclically, apparent.





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